Valedictory Speech – Abigail Wolnicki To say our class has all the classic TV tropes of any film set in a high school would be cliché‚ but it’s the truth. We have our freshmen‚ preps‚ nerds‚ jocks‚ Asian Nerds‚ cool Asians‚ girls who eat their feelings‚ girls who don’t eat anything‚ desperate wannabes and burnouts‚ but also the greatest people you’ll ever meet. All Mean Girls quotes aside‚ the people in this class are some of the greatest people I’ve ever met. I came to Toowoomba Christian College
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Synthesis Essay - Devan B In “Article #1” by Alia Wong‚ “Article #2” by Risa Gelles-Watnick and Andrew Perrin‚ and “Article #3” by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ the primary claim is that women enjoy reading more than men and reading has been linked to education and career success. “Girls and young women—once subjected to discrimination in‚ and even exclusion from‚ schools and colleges—have conquered those very institutions‚” explained Alia Wong based on information from the Organization for Economic
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Wong Kar-Wai’s visually stunning‚"In the Mood for Love" is a film set in Hong Kong 1962‚ and made in the year 2000. The two protagonists‚ Chow Mo-Wan‚ and Su Li-Zhen‚ become neighbors where they discover that their marital partners have cheated on them. Through their mutual betrayal‚ they begin to develop an intimate bond‚ but the fear of becoming similar to their spouses causes them to avoid expressing it fully. The aesthetic elements play a strong role in broadening the viewer’s understanding of
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English 248 12 December 2009 Elizabeth Keckley: Is She a Pioneer of Womanism? Keckley was born a slave in Virginia. She was an excellent seamstress and dressmaker. Using her skill and contacts she bought her freedom in 1855. After she was freed‚ she made her way to Washington‚ D.C. Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907)‚ seamstress and dressmaker to the wives of many political movers and shakers of that day. Her client list included Varina Davis‚ of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and
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The Girl with all the Gifts has multiple setting‚ the novel first took place in Hotel Echo in a base in London in the future. In the past London experienced a breakdown 20 years ago where a disease named Ophiocordyceps infected almost the whole civilization. Once the breakdown occurred everything became a dystopia. The world full life with video games‚ money etc‚ turned into broken society with flesh eating creatures. M.R. Carey began the novel with Melanie and her fellow students strapped in wheelchairs
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Elizabeth Siddal‚ Pre-Raphaelite model and wife to Gabriel Rossetti‚ is the source of intrigue for many Victorian researchers. Her mystery began from her vague background as a milliner ’s assistant. From the start‚ many stories were told of her discovery and yet few stories were told of her past before that point. A frail young woman‚ she was addicted to narcotics and suffered from a variety of ailments‚ from the physical to the mental. Her turbulent relationship with Rossetti was plagued with
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Odd Girl Out is a TV movie that follows the struggles of a young girl named Vanessa Snyder‚ who must deal with the brutality and peer pressure from the children in her class. This film is based on the advice book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons. It shows that bullying among girls is usually non-physical‚ indirect and unnoticeable. This problem is harmful‚ destructive and usually ignored‚ leaving victims to suffer in silence. Vanessa is a young girl in eighth
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When Your Partner is struggling with an Addiction When Your Partner is Struggling with an Addiction you are not alone … substance abuse affects millions of families. It is a difficult road to travel and can have severe consequences. When you think about it‚ you may find that a lot of your energy has been focused on your addicted partner – trying to rescue‚ cover up for‚ or stop him/her from destroying careers or even lives. Should you continue in this relationship‚ the strength‚ persistence‚ and
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Professor’s Name Course Title Date Introduction Elizabeth Bishop‚ born in 1911‚ was a rather marginalized and obscure figure in the American literature even though she won the Pulitzer Award with her fellow poets Robert Lowell and Marianne Moore. She attained literally prominence just a few years before her death. Since then her prominent and critical reputation has changed and grown to a point of being considered as one of the best American poets in the twentieth century. Bishop was always
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stock market crash which caused him to lose a lot of money. Because of this he was no longer able to support his wife and five daughters and in the year 1930 he abandoned his family by staging a suicide. Elizabeth was only five when her father abandoned her family. Her mother continued to raise Elizabeth and her four sisters as a single mother. She would take Elizabeth’s and her sisters to the cinema once a week. This sparked Elizabeth’s interest in acting.Many years later Cleo sent a letter to his wife
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